Albon man of brooklyn



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Be known tha't 'I, A'LBON Msm oi' the city of Brookiymin 'thefitat'e'of New York {have invented new.

and useful Seal for Locks and other purposes and I do hereby declare tha't the follo' wing 'is'a full, clear, and

' exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed engravings as specimens'and illustrations of invention, to be applied to Thompsons or other similar seai locks. I i The nature-ofthis invention consists in theprepnration of. a seal printed on 'a slip of paper With a marginal register, on which can be noted the time and place of'using the same'.'- Theseseuls of: 'r arious designs onslips I may be combined in pass-books or otherwise. The invention contemplates the use of numerous-variant designsto be combined on one slip of paper or bound in successive pages of a pnss-bookyso asft o allow of a permutation' of the designs for further. security.

The object of this invention is to providea'cheek upon the us e'ofthe sea hand on th'e'tperson who is author -j I ized to use the same The manner of usingthis inventionis to take, from the-book or sheet or piece of paper on which'it is prepared. or printed, one of the designs intended as-a seal andi insert itfin' the lock with the face downward, (so that it cannot ,be discovered what particular design is used,)or otherwise, appropriately insert it in a lockintended for use with seals, and at the same time to make a record, upon the margin,'oflheitiine, circumstances, place of using or other material matter in regard to the'use ofthe seal; and at-the next or some subsequent occasion in 7 like mannento use another and different design, making on the appropriate margin a like recerd' oi' use,'thus by permutation of designs in use keeping allo'thers thnnthe persons authorized to lrnowfit, in ignorance of what a particular design, is in a lock at any given time, as wellas at the same time. keeping a record-which will show whether seals are in fact'used, and serve as-a check upon anyvemployeerequir'ed to use them, bywenabiing the employer to examine a. record in regard thereto, and to'see by the Inarginitsel f, even without a'i'eco'rd, if'any,

designs areimissing or used without record or the'like. 7

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 'is- I v 1. A seal for lock seals or other analogous purposes, where it is important to keep a record of the nuuiber in! kind ofseals used, and the times, places, and circumstances of the use thereof, by the preparation of the I seal, upon a siipof paper with a marginal register, on which all the said facts may be noted, 3

2. I claim constructing said seals yariantly, so-as; to operate as a checkup on' counterfeiting, and so that it cannot be known which design-is used in any given case except by the person using [it and .by the record.

3. I' claim these variant designs combined in pass-books on slips of papers, so as to allow apermutation.of

the designs for further security. i ALBON MAN.

Witnesses WM. Been,

A. B. Murmur.- 

